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CERN press office - press releasesenCinéGlobe 2010 international short film festival invites films for three competitionshttp://press.cern/press-releases/2009/08/cineglobe-2010-international-short-film-festival-invites-films-three
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<p>Geneva, 19 August. The next edition of the CinéGlobe International Short Film Festival will take place the 16-20th of February 2010 at CERN<sup>1</sup> near Geneva, Switzerland. Filmmakers are invited to submit their work to one of three competitions:</p>
<ul><li>General fiction up to ten minutes (deadline for submissions: 14th September 2009)</li>
<li>Science-fiction or scientific fiction up to twenty minutes (deadline for submissions: 30th September 2009)</li>
<li>Science documentary up to thirty minutes (deadline for submissions: 30th September 2009)</li>
</ul><p>Entry is free via <a href="http://shortfilmdepot.com">shortfilmdepot.com</a> - review copies can be sent on DVD or can be uploaded via the <a href="http://cineglobe.ch">festival website</a>. There is no limit to the number of films that may be submitted.</p>
<ul><li><a href="http://shortfilmdepot.com/infos_festivals/cineglobe/rgt10_en.pdf">Download the festival rules</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cineglobe.ch/2007/trailer.mov">Download the trailer from the previous edition </a></li>
<li>Contact <a href="mailto:films@cineglobe.ch">films@cineglobe.ch</a> for inquiries concerning submitting a film.</li>
</ul><p>CinéGlobe 2010 is organized by <a href="http://www.openyoureyesfilms.ch/">Open Your Eyes Films</a><sup>2</sup>, CERN and the Bureau Culturel de la ville de Meyrin.</p>
<p>Contact: Quentin King<br />
Chairman of the Selection Committee<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:info@cineglobe.ch">info@cineglobe.ch</a><br />
Tel: +41 22 767 8473</p>
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<p>1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for accession. Israel is an Associate Member in the pre-stage to Membership. India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.</p>
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<p>2. <a href="http://www.openyoureyesfilms.ch/">Open Your Eyes Films</a> is a non-profit association based at CERN and dedicated to making and promoting short films</p>
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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:00:00 +0000Cian O'Luanaigh216 at http://press.cernLHC to run at 3.5 TeV for early part of 2009-2010 run rising laterhttp://press.cern/press-releases/2009/08/lhc-run-35-tev-early-part-2009-2010-run-rising-later
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<p>Geneva, 6 August 2009. CERN's<sup>1</sup> Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests on the machine's high-current electrical connections were completed last week, indicating that no further repairs are necessary for safe running.</p>
<p>"We've selected 3.5 TeV to start," said CERN's Director General, Rolf Heuer, "because it allows the LHC operators to gain experience of running the machine safely while opening up a new discovery region for the experiments."</p>
<p>Following the incident of 19 September 2008 that brought the LHC to a standstill, testing has focused on the 10,000 high-current superconducting electrical connections like the one that led to the fault. These consist of two parts: the superconductor itself, and a copper stabilizer that carries the current in case the superconductor warms up and stops superconducting, a so-called quench. In their normal superconducting state, there is negligible electrical resistance across these connections, but in a small number of cases abnormally high resistances have been found in the superconductor. These have been repaired. However, there remain a number of cases where the resistance in the copper stabilizer connections is higher than it should be for running at full energy.</p>
<p>The latest tests looked at the resistance of the copper stabilizer. Many copper connections showing anomalously high resistance have been repaired already, and the tests on the final two sectors, which concluded last week, have revealed no more outliers. This means that no more repairs are necessary for safe running this year and next.</p>
<p>"The LHC is a much better understood machine than it was a year ago," said Heuer. "We can look forward with confidence and excitement to a good run through the winter and into next year."</p>
<p>The procedure for the 2009 start-up will be to inject and capture beams in each direction, take collision data for a few shifts at the injection energy, and then commission the ramp to higher energy. The first high-energy data should be collected a few weeks after the first beam of 2009 is injected. The LHC will run at 3.5 TeV per beam until a significant data sample has been collected and the operations team has gained experience in running the machine. Thereafter, with the benefit of that experience, the energy will be taken towards 5 TeV per beam. At the end of 2010, the LHC will be run with lead ions for the first time. After that, the LHC will shut down and work will begin on moving the machine towards 7 TeV per beam.</p>
<p>CERN is publishing regular updates on the LHC in its internal Bulletin, available at <a href="http://www.cern.ch/bulletin">cern.ch/bulletin</a>, as well as via twitter and YouTube at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/cern">twitter.com/cern</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/cern">youtube.com/cern</a></p>
<p>Contact : James Gillies, Press Office<br />
Tel. +41 22 767 4101<br />
Cell. : +41 76 487 4555</p>
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<p>CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a candidate for accession. Israel is an Associate Member in the pre-stage to Membership. India, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.</p>
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